Melissa Barrera to Star in Movie "In The Cradle Of Granite"

Mexican actress Melissa Barrera is set to lead "In the Cradle of Granite", a new Western thriller marking the English-language debut of Ariel Escalante (Domingo and the Mist).

Based on an original screenplay by Jay Holmes, the movie is set in the brutal American west of the late 1800s, where a young mother (Barrera) struggles to provide for her family after her husband dies and the local town folk won’t do business with her. But when she finds the body of a notorious wanted outlaw on her homestead, she strikes a deal with the bounty hunter who killed him — setting out across the dangerous frontier in hopes of a big reward and a better future.

Producing the movie are Joel David Moore, Rishi Bajaj and Daniel Taborga of Balcony 9 Productions (upcoming Bride Hard, Immaculate Room), Jonathan Sadowski and Daniel Pancotto of Ad Lunam Ent, and Gregory Thomas. 

Chase Hinton, Lynette Gurule-Thomas, and Michael Thomas are serving as executive producers.

Barrera was recently seen in "Scream VI" and Universal Pictures’ monster movie "Abigail". 

She'll appear next in Kwame Kwei-Armah’s drama "The Collaboration", on the friendship between artists Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and a new Peacock thriller series teaming James Wan and Simu Liu.

A Costa Rican filmmaker coming off of the Cannes-premiering drama "Domingo and the Mist", Escalante prior to that helmed 2016 indie drama The Sound of Things.